Ah, the hide-faced hammer! Remember a Flt Cdr on 19 cursing the skill of the hide-faced hammer operator. It was a dark and dirty night when the AOC scrambled the Leconfield Wing - after a recall from Friday happy hour I might add. After the usual Whee...Phut, said Flt Cdr was unstrapped and halfway down the ladder when he met the hide-faced hammer operator on the way up.
'Stay in the cockpit, Sir, I know where to hit it!'
He did, he did and it started - 45 mins later, two approaches and a dodgy landing from an ILS in Amber/Red Wx and that operator was not the Flt Cdr's favourite.
I know, thread creep WIWOL.